And don't forget the constitutional part about public forests and parks, paved roads, space technology, and consumer protection to name a few. The government is a big business and looks out after our interests, good and bad. PBS just seems like a good byproduct of government pork in my opinion. Bad pork might include the NSA and other nonsense.
I disagree with PBS being a waste of tax dollars. I don not receive cable television and am unable to watch Discovery, A&E, etc. PBS is public and free and I can watch it from a rooftop arial.
I used to subscribe to cable for $60 a month with all the channels. After one month, all I was seeing was the same repeats of violence and mayhem. PBS is more independent from ratings and more donation driven. The quality seems to survive.
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I haven't watched television in a long time, but I do remember Nova. It would be great watching the space program in its full digital glory right from the satellites cameras and obtain a more personalized view of space and physics. This could be possible with high bandwidth PBS television!
This looks like an excellent broadcast medium for arts and sciences in our homes; however, I am worried that if Intel is the only one sponsoring this technology, it may become forgotten. Hopefully, there will be multiple vendors that have significant capital and interest to push this method of media into the market. PBS has provided many wonderful programs througout the decades and this technology could provide a great evolutionary step in education. I just hope there are some dedicated people who will back this and ensure its diversity in the market.
It may sound crazy, but if you knew anything about graphics, you were a hit. In 1984, I was at La Jolla Jr. High in southern California. Apple ][+ computers filled a classroom. They were a great learning tools and those who knew how to do anything graphical, eye catching candy, were the first to be asked for help. Our teacher enjoyed the opportunity and encouraged us to learn. Computer classes were electives attended by both sexes and I have quite a notes and colorful kisses in my yearbook from helping those of the opposite sex.
A mouse peeing on the power supply back in those days was a valid excuse for a computer failure. In my experience, it took some act of nature, like a squirrel jumping into the substation transformer to cause a computer to die.
Nowadays, people accept a computer not working for no reason at all. Its a damn shame. What used to be external causes or hardware failure can now be blamed on what was once solid, reliable logic. Now we have bloat running the majority of consumer's computers. So much for innovation and the billions people pay for the newer crap!
A few months ago, I read in the Wall Street Journal about a software developer's forum about making a profit was held in Silicon Valley. The main point was driven into the crowd that don't wait for perfection, but to release it and worry about bugfixes later. I was appauled that this seems to be common business practice. No pride.
Apple seemed to have been very aggressive toward any competitors that made a clone. Its a shame, because my uncle had a Franklin, and it was a damn fine clone that would have really motivated Apple to produce a competitive next generation. Unfortunately, they decided to spend the money on lawyers and sue competitors out of the game. The Apple ][ died due to the legal crap.
Not a bad project, really. A cluster of Apples these days would make an excellent lab experiment. They are simple enough to trace what happens when they talk to eachother and compute a larger problem. It may be slow, but it would be a learning experience!
The size of the schematics would not have to be large, since chips are represented as blocks, and a bus of many wires is represented by a thicker line. It was easy for me to whip out an 8-bit computer on a CAD program in minutes due to these tricks. If you only have a dozen chips on a board, its quite easy to do the wiring with a CAD program and print it out on a single 9x11" sheet of paper. It might not be usable to print every single trace on the board. (Who could read that?)
I had the Apple ][+ (I never saw a plain ][) with a stock 2MHz crystal driving a Rockwell 6502 processor. I would later find out that processor was used in video games, such as Asteroids (my all time favorite!)
Some time ago, I relived my memories by finding an Apple ][e emulator for DOS and a stash of warez. I would be most happy if I stumbled upon an emulator for Linux!
The only problem I had with the emulator was that the games ran WAY TOO FAST! It was a joy to relive the experience of programming this simple, yet effective computer. I always wanted to see technology advance where the platform could get small enough where an Apple computer could fit in my pocket. Well, now I just got a Palm Pilot and hope they are easy to program just like the ][+...
From what I hear, Microsoft is an agressive collector of art in addition to buying other information services. I always thought that most works of great art were bought and collected by rich people. It may have been just be something they enjoyed doing, admired, or an ego boost. Let's say it takes money to run a museum with grand exhibits. I dislike Bill Gates, but he may care enough to display some history. Yes, I know Microsoft has published that timeline of computer history and ignored most of the major players (where was UNIX!)
Quite the opposite! If I remember the first Apples were sold as a board. The Apple II had quite a durable case that allowed the computer to survive fire and any abuse. It was a solid computer from the enclosure to its core guts. It was simple and well designed. They still seem to fetch a high price tag. I hope to catch an Apple II surplus, because they do work well for what they do. The Apple II that I had only ran at 2MHz on its 6502 processor, but for simple things, one or two million instructions per second is fast. Screen updates were faster than a blink of an eye. I wrote some GUI environments that were mighty quick too. The only problem was that you could not write bloated code in less than 48K of memory. Which was a good thing.
Now there's something you don't find with computers anymore! When I had my Apple ][+, I had the joys of opening up the schematics and seeing the flow of hardware logic that the software controlled. It was beautiful and right down to each gate. Writing low level assembly was a breeze since I knew exactly what the computer was going to do when I exchanged bits on the ports. It was easy to write code without bugs, because all the information was there.
The schematics allowed some very inventive software to be written and helped cause an explosive growth of community. It was a hackers dream to toy with the internals and code.
I would gladly pay double for computer boards with schematics down to the programmable ports. Documentation makes hardware much more useful for me.
One thing I remember from those presidential campains waged by Clinton and Gore was that there would be no technology have and have-not classes. The opposite is true. I see a leadership that is not leading, but taking credit for other people's work. and leading the internet into decay. The so called leaders do not seem to be a part of the community. Rather, I see monopolies that steal information from the communities that create it all under the protection of "Mr. I Invented the Internet." It seems like irresponsible polititions can really do much damage to community driven projects for their political gain.
I paid NSI $70 for the privilige of my information being freely distributed and they choose to lock it up, effectively stealing it. What gave them the right to own information I paid them to distribute?
Is the NSI trying to become the next Microsoft? Are the non disclosures really necessary? What intellectual property? I thought this was the internet where it was necessary to share the load and resources. It seems to me NSI is some kind of raging cancer out of control bent on eating any healthy competition. They need to cut that behavior.
Exactly. A clone is a real person, just like an identical twin, not some mindless lab rat. I think we have an irresponsible media and sensationalist religious groups mis-educating the public on what life really is. I can imagine some mindless christians acting like the devil himself and killing people who happen to have origins of cloning, "you are not human!"
Where did education go? Televised news and religious groups? We are in trouble!
The spammer used an old address I thought I retired. Now that you mentioned it, it was my distributed.net address. I was just busting keys with that address, now I have to bust the skull of some dumbass knucklehead spammer so he can't father children in the future.
No, we don't need no stinking laws. The internet can heal itself without involving the slow creaky wheels of justice. If they keep it up, the pipe dumping raw noise into the internet will be simply cut off and blackballed. Things like that happen if you have a mail relay and allow abuse.
Why didn't you get any? Looking at your address, you are using newsguy, the same guys that provide the anti spam service spamhippo. They also do a good job cleaning usenet news of spam crap. I have a newsguy account and it seems well protected against spam. I'm waiting for a day to get spam at that account so I can watch the spammer get crushed like a bug.
The spammer got my old email address that I haven't used for several months since I got my static IP. He must have compiled the list of addresses long ago. What pisses me off is that the guy looks bent on trying to destroy slashdot getting people riled up and emailing abuse@slashdot. Would it be reasonable to assume this guy is pulling a DOS attack?
Looking at the headers in the spam I got, I returned it pretty hard to the guy. From the headers, it looked like the guy used some kind of point and drool warez program.
Why people spam is beyond me. What would motivate someone to do something so sensless? It costs them money and does not gain worthwhile friends. Is it the same motivation that drives serial killers?
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And don't forget the constitutional part about public forests and parks, paved roads, space technology, and consumer protection to name a few. The government is a big business and looks out after our interests, good and bad. PBS just seems like a good byproduct of government pork in my opinion. Bad pork might include the NSA and other nonsense.
I disagree with PBS being a waste of tax dollars. I don not receive cable television and am unable to watch Discovery, A&E, etc. PBS is public and free and I can watch it from a rooftop arial.
I used to subscribe to cable for $60 a month with all the channels. After one month, all I was seeing was the same repeats of violence and mayhem. PBS is more independent from ratings and more donation driven. The quality seems to survive.
I haven't watched television in a long time, but I do remember Nova. It would be great watching the space program in its full digital glory right from the satellites cameras and obtain a more personalized view of space and physics. This could be possible with high bandwidth PBS television!
This looks like an excellent broadcast medium for arts and sciences in our homes; however, I am worried that if Intel is the only one sponsoring this technology, it may become forgotten. Hopefully, there will be multiple vendors that have significant capital and interest to push this method of media into the market. PBS has provided many wonderful programs througout the decades and this technology could provide a great evolutionary step in education. I just hope there are some dedicated people who will back this and ensure its diversity in the market.
No software?
A good starting point for Apple III software.
A good archive for Apple II software.
Eat your heart out this link.
It may sound crazy, but if you knew anything about graphics, you were a hit. In 1984, I was at La Jolla Jr. High in southern California. Apple ][+ computers filled a classroom. They were a great learning tools and those who knew how to do anything graphical, eye catching candy, were the first to be asked for help. Our teacher enjoyed the opportunity and encouraged us to learn. Computer classes were electives attended by both sexes and I have quite a notes and colorful kisses in my yearbook from helping those of the opposite sex.
A mouse peeing on the power supply back in those days was a valid excuse for a computer failure. In my experience, it took some act of nature, like a squirrel jumping into the substation transformer to cause a computer to die.
Nowadays, people accept a computer not working for no reason at all. Its a damn shame. What used to be external causes or hardware failure can now be blamed on what was once solid, reliable logic. Now we have bloat running the majority of consumer's computers. So much for innovation and the billions people pay for the newer crap!
A few months ago, I read in the Wall Street Journal about a software developer's forum about making a profit was held in Silicon Valley. The main point was driven into the crowd that don't wait for perfection, but to release it and worry about bugfixes later. I was appauled that this seems to be common business practice. No pride.
Apple seemed to have been very aggressive toward any competitors that made a clone. Its a shame, because my uncle had a Franklin, and it was a damn fine clone that would have really motivated Apple to produce a competitive next generation. Unfortunately, they decided to spend the money on lawyers and sue competitors out of the game. The Apple ][ died due to the legal crap.
Not a bad project, really. A cluster of Apples these days would make an excellent lab experiment. They are simple enough to trace what happens when they talk to eachother and compute a larger problem. It may be slow, but it would be a learning experience!
The size of the schematics would not have to be large, since chips are represented as blocks, and a bus of many wires is represented by a thicker line. It was easy for me to whip out an 8-bit computer on a CAD program in minutes due to these tricks. If you only have a dozen chips on a board, its quite easy to do the wiring with a CAD program and print it out on a single 9x11" sheet of paper. It might not be usable to print every single trace on the board. (Who could read that?)
$12,000 for the first 386 chip? Might not be a bad deal if you knew the price of transistors back in the early days cost $100 each.
The 386 had 250,000 transistors. So this would mean you are getting a damn good deal. Go for it!
I had the Apple ][+ (I never saw a plain ][) with a stock 2MHz crystal driving a Rockwell 6502 processor. I would later find out that processor was used in video games, such as Asteroids (my all time favorite!)
Some time ago, I relived my memories by finding an Apple ][e emulator for DOS and a stash of warez. I would be most happy if I stumbled upon an emulator for Linux!
The only problem I had with the emulator was that the games ran WAY TOO FAST! It was a joy to relive the experience of programming this simple, yet effective computer. I always wanted to see technology advance where the platform could get small enough where an Apple computer could fit in my pocket. Well, now I just got a Palm Pilot and hope they are easy to program just like the ][+...
From what I hear, Microsoft is an agressive collector of art in addition to buying other information services. I always thought that most works of great art were bought and collected by rich people. It may have been just be something they enjoyed doing, admired, or an ego boost. Let's say it takes money to run a museum with grand exhibits. I dislike Bill Gates, but he may care enough to display some history. Yes, I know Microsoft has published that timeline of computer history and ignored most of the major players (where was UNIX!)
Quite the opposite! If I remember the first Apples were sold as a board. The Apple II had quite a durable case that allowed the computer to survive fire and any abuse. It was a solid computer from the enclosure to its core guts. It was simple and well designed. They still seem to fetch a high price tag. I hope to catch an Apple II surplus, because they do work well for what they do. The Apple II that I had only ran at 2MHz on its 6502 processor, but for simple things, one or two million instructions per second is fast. Screen updates were faster than a blink of an eye. I wrote some GUI environments that were mighty quick too. The only problem was that you could not write bloated code in less than 48K of memory. Which was a good thing.
Now there's something you don't find with computers anymore! When I had my Apple ][+, I had the joys of opening up the schematics and seeing the flow of hardware logic that the software controlled. It was beautiful and right down to each gate. Writing low level assembly was a breeze since I knew exactly what the computer was going to do when I exchanged bits on the ports. It was easy to write code without bugs, because all the information was there.
The schematics allowed some very inventive software to be written and helped cause an explosive growth of community. It was a hackers dream to toy with the internals and code.
I would gladly pay double for computer boards with schematics down to the programmable ports. Documentation makes hardware much more useful for me.
One thing I remember from those presidential campains waged by Clinton and Gore was that there would be no technology have and have-not classes. The opposite is true. I see a leadership that is not leading, but taking credit for other people's work. and leading the internet into decay. The so called leaders do not seem to be a part of the community. Rather, I see monopolies that steal information from the communities that create it all under the protection of "Mr. I Invented the Internet." It seems like irresponsible polititions can really do much damage to community driven projects for their political gain.
If you don't email him, be sure to give him the gift of the infinite ping...
I paid NSI $70 for the privilige of my information being freely distributed and they choose to lock it up, effectively stealing it. What gave them the right to own information I paid them to distribute?
Is the NSI trying to become the next Microsoft? Are the non disclosures really necessary? What intellectual property? I thought this was the internet where it was necessary to share the load and resources. It seems to me NSI is some kind of raging cancer out of control bent on eating any healthy competition. They need to cut that behavior.
Exactly. A clone is a real person, just like an identical twin, not some mindless lab rat. I think we have an irresponsible media and sensationalist religious groups mis-educating the public on what life really is. I can imagine some mindless christians acting like the devil himself and killing people who happen to have origins of cloning, "you are not human!"
Where did education go? Televised news and religious groups? We are in trouble!
The spammer used an old address I thought I retired. Now that you mentioned it, it was my distributed.net address. I was just busting keys with that address, now I have to bust the skull of some dumbass knucklehead spammer so he can't father children in the future.
No, we don't need no stinking laws. The internet can heal itself without involving the slow creaky wheels of justice. If they keep it up, the pipe dumping raw noise into the internet will be simply cut off and blackballed. Things like that happen if you have a mail relay and allow abuse.
Here are a few great antispam links:
http://maps.vix.com/
http://www.orbs.org/
http://spam.abuse.net/
Why didn't you get any? Looking at your address, you are using newsguy, the same guys that provide the anti spam service spamhippo. They also do a good job cleaning usenet news of spam crap. I have a newsguy account and it seems well protected against spam. I'm waiting for a day to get spam at that account so I can watch the spammer get crushed like a bug.
The spammer got my old email address that I haven't used for several months since I got my static IP. He must have compiled the list of addresses long ago. What pisses me off is that the guy looks bent on trying to destroy slashdot getting people riled up and emailing abuse@slashdot. Would it be reasonable to assume this guy is pulling a DOS attack?
Looking at the headers in the spam I got, I returned it pretty hard to the guy. From the headers, it looked like the guy used some kind of point and drool warez program.
Why people spam is beyond me. What would motivate someone to do something so sensless? It costs them money and does not gain worthwhile friends. Is it the same motivation that drives serial killers?
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